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Jorge Bacelar Gouveia, a former PSD deputy and candidate for an advisory judge of the Supreme Court of Justice, is being investigated by the Public Ministry and the Judicial Police for alleged corruption at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, SATURDAY. However, it is not the investigation that is blocking his entry to the Supreme Court, but the lack of vacancies. Bacelar Gouveia is running for the Supreme Court as a merit lawyer, but for now there is no assessing judge who has entered the court in the same way that he leaves. Therefore, Bacelar has not yet entered.
The research of the also university professor arose from Operation Tutti Frutti, from which a certificate was extracted. Bacelar Gouveia is suspected of providing doctorates from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa to students from African countries with the official Portuguese language (PALOP). Like SATURDAY Avanzó, the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM), which manages the Supreme Court contests, received a complaint about the investigations of the candidate for judge counselor.
In addition to the lack of vacancies, the entry of Bacelar Gouveia can still be blocked by article 108 of the Statute of the Magistracy, which establishes that in the event of “pending criminal or disciplinary proceedings, the magistrate is graduated for promotion or access, but these be suspended as regards him, reserving the respective vacancy until final decision, “that is, the former deputy may be included in the list of candidates for vacancies, but his entry is frozen.
Judge Orlando Nascimento, who resigned as president of the Lisbon Court of Appeals in March, is under investigation for abuse of power. He was ranked 38th on the list of candidates for the Supreme Court of Justice.
This Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Justice announced that “eight new Counseling Judges have been appointed to the STJ – six career judges and two Lawyers – at this time there is no vacancy for Meritorious Jurist.”
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